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j.fursiant to an Act of the General
...,:!! v cf the Commonwealth of Pennsvl-
rt-;a, entitled "Au Act relating to the elec
I ,',f tin's Commonwealth," approved 2d
'1.;"0f July, A. D. 1839, 1, JAMES MYERS.
Si'trilf of the County of Cambria, in
Tb'nHnonwealth of Pennsylvania, do here
v make known and give notice to the elec
Vst,f the county aforesaid, that a General
action will be hp!. kin the county of Cam--,
on the SECOND TUESDAY, being the
;s,iavof OCTOIJER.A. I. 18G7.at which
following State and County oflicers will
: elected, to wit :
One person forjLcroffice of Judge of the
,reme Cjurt'of the Commonwealth of
";2s viva nia,
One" person to represent the county of
(j-:e person ro nil tne oince ol cjuerm or
;.'. county,
(v eibun to fill the office of Treasurer of
us
icuuntv.
(st person to fill the office of Commis-
V.irui Uiinona county.
I'to persons t j fill the office of Jury Ccm
.,iiitrs of Cambria count'.
ia; person to fill the office of Poor House
:iCM of Carnbri.1 county.
io piTsons to fill the office of Auditors.
a tar 3 yean ami one lor 1 year, of Cani-
;i county.
L'lie person to fill the ofiico of Coroner of
j.;Lria county.
ILe electors of the district composed of
; township of Allegheny, to meet at the
:e of 31. Leavy, E.-q., in the borough of
etto.
"e electors of the district composed of the
v.liip of Black tick, to meet at the house
X),tm Meakin, ia the village of Ielsano,
t'jwnsli.ip.
.. Actors cf the district composed of
tie v,--ip of Cambria, to meet at the
c.i" 'i uorou;n or -coensDurg.
lit tutors of the district composed of
le r,uiiliip of Carroll, to meet at the
v U 'Ue in the borough of Carrol! town.
'; .'.' electors of the district pompod of
:-bTt'i!h of Carroll town, to meet at the
.'. r! ili.use in said borough.
V...'e:t,i.tofs of the district composed of tho
:i.ip of Chtt, ti meet at the School
i e c a ti.e farm of Iucharu J, Proudfeut,
vii.l township.
Hie electors of the district composed of
borough of Chett Springs, to meer at the
-e of Jacob Wagner, in i-aiJ borough.
Van electors of the !i.trict composed cf
; township if Cleat field, to meet at School
'i-e No. 3, rvoj-.ii.ing the village of St. Au
;lue, iu said township,
liic f.'i-ctors -f tho liistrict composed of
y,wuLip of Cnemaugh, to nn-et at the
:.!.,. A lhiise at Singer's, in said township,
'v..'. .'.dors of the district composed of
. ' of Concmaugh. to meet as fol
"!: i i'-, Ward, ut the house now occu
!y refer M.iiizi, in said Fir.-t Ward;
Ward, ;it the ImUx? now occupied by
i I'.itters.'n, in s.iid Second Ward,
ii.e t-iectors of t!ie district camposed of
borough .f Cambria, to meet at School
o. 'J, iu s;ti.l borough, --i.e
clectcrs of the district composed of
'"t:sh:p f Croy!t-. to meet at the School
i:i the village uf Summeihill, in said
L.'-ctors of tlie district composed of
- l-jt wAi of Eleiisburg, to meet as fu!low:
-."t t ho Court House iu said Ward:
Vu.v, at Jamts 31 vers Hull, in said
a '. e;crt. -rs of the district composed of
' '"l:ip of Galhtzin, to meet at the
- I juse in the town cf Gallitzin, in
- ' TlJ.hi O.
' electors of the district compose! of
wivnship of Jackson, to meet at the
'; of Henry ltg"r.
l;.e electors ot the district composed of
: borough of Johnstown, to meet as fol-
s: 1st Ward, at the Public School House
.5, in said Ward; I'd Ward, at the office
.''.-. ph S. Strayer, Esq., cm Market street,
ul Wan!; 3d Ward, at Foster House,
il'i Ward; 4th Wurd, at t!ie house of
i Trefts, in said Ward; oth Ward, at
Xenivilla Scho l House, in said Ward.
1 ..e electors of the district composed of
-ugh cf Loretto, io meet at the School
in suid borough.
iO electors of the district compose! of
towuship of 31u lister, to meet at the
.housj of Augustine Durbin, in the vil-
A Manster, iu said township.
'I.e electors of the district composed of
- I r ui;!i of Prospect, to nu-et at the"
! House in Srtid borougli.
i-e electors of the district composed of
towr.ship of Richland, to meet at the
of J.icub Kring, in said township.
electors of the district composed of
p oi iiuivuie, io meet at tne
"AuttU n;e, in said borough.
. -'ec.urs ( f the district composed of
- "'s.ip of Summeihill, to meet at the
iioue in the borough of Wilmore.
:ii.1'e e'tors of tle district composed of
, t"'ri'"?h of Summitville, to meet at the
IIoe in said borough.
h"-e electors of the district composed of
a township of Susquehanna, to meet at the
of Jerome Piatt, in said township.
li,e electors of the district composed of
'township of Taylor, to meet at the-School
'!-e near Jno. Ileadrick'sdn sa:d township.
fue electors of the district composed of
e township of Washington, to meet ut the
-;iol .louse at the fjot of Plane No. 4, in
i'l towns-hu).
The electors of the district composed of
e borough of Wihnove. to meet at the
!;ool House in said borou-h
xhe electors of the dist?ic't composed of
e township of White, to meet at School
t i township.
1 he electors of the district composed of
. townsh.p of otler. to meet at the public
u o, copied by llobert Barclay.
vh c lJ"rthtr,jiKi notice, as iu and by the
;tb Section of the aforesaid Act I am direct-
'epjp ' au Prs8 ptiog Justices of
e reace. who aha hnM ,.rr:- - .
tment of profit or trust under th- cov
-aent of the United States or of this State
SSiy-T ncorPrated district, whether
.missioned ofneer or otherwise, a subor-
- agerir., wno is or shall be employed
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1867.
under the legislative, judiciary or executive
department of this State or the United
States, or any city or incorporated district;
also, that every member of Congress and the
State Legislature, and of the select and com
mon councils of any incorporated district, ia
by law incapable of holding or exercising,
at the same time, the office or appointment
of Judge. Inspector or Clerk of any election
of this Common wealth, and that no Inspector
or Judge, or other officer of any such elec
tion shall be eligible to any office then to be
voted for, - Also; in . the 4th Section of the
Act of Assembly, entitled "An Act relating
to elections and for other purposes," appro
ved the 10th day of April, 1856, it'is enacted
that the foregoiug 13th Section shall net be
so construed as to prevent any military offi
cer or borough officer from serving as Judge
or Inspector at any general or special elec
tions in the Commonwealth.
Also, that in the Gist Section of said Act
it is enacted that "every genfral and special
election shall be opened between the hours
of eight and ten o'clock in the forenoon, and
shall continue, without interruption or ad
journment, until seven o?clcck in the even
ing, when the polls shall be closed."
The general, special, city, incorporated
district and township elections, and all elec
tions for. electors of President and Vice Pres
ident of the Uuited States, shall be held aud
conducted by the Inspectors and Judges
elected as aforesaid, and by clerks appointed
as hereinafter provided.
No person shall be permitted to vote at
any election, as aforesaid, but a white free
man of the age of twenty-one years "or more,
who shall have resided in this State at least
one year, and in the election district where
he offers to vote at least ten days immediate
ly preceding such election, and within two
j cats paid a State or County tax which shall
have bWn assessed at least ten days before
the election. J3ut a citizen of the United
States, who had previously been a citizen of
this State, and removed therefrom and re
turned, and who shall have resided in the,
election district, and paid taxes as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to vote after residing in this
State six months. Provided, that the white
freemen, citizens of the United States, be
tween the ages of twenty-one and twenty
two ear: aud who have re.-ided in the elec
tion district ten days as aforesaid, thall be
entitled to vote, although they shall not have
paid taxes.
No person shall be permitted to vote whose
name is not contained in the list of taxable
inhabitants furnished by the Commissioners,
unless fmt he produce a receipt fur the pay
meut of a State or County tax assessed agree
ably to the Constitution, and give sat'sfac
tory evidence, cither on nis own oath or af
firmation or that of another, that he has paid
such tax, cr on failure to produce a receipt,
shall make oath thereof; or, second, if he
claim the right to vote by being an elector
between the age of twenty-one and twenty
two years, he shall depose on oath or affirm
ation that he has resided in the State at
least one year before his application, and
make such proof of his residence in the dis
trict as is required by this Act, and that he
does verily believe, from theaccouut given
him, that he is of the age aforesaid, and give
such other evidence as is required by this
Act. whereupon the name of the person so
admitted to vote shall be inserted in the al
phabetical list by the Inspector, and a note
made opposite thereto by writing the word
"Tax, ' if he shall be permitted to vote by
reason of having paid tax, or the word
"Age," if he shall be admitted to vote by
reason of such age. and the same shall be
called out to thu Clerks, who shall make
their notes in the list of voters kept by them.
"In all fuch cases, where the name of a
person claiming to vote is found on the list
furnished by the Commissioners and Asses
sors, or his right to vote, whether found
thereon or not, is objected to by any quali
fied citizen, it shall be the duty of the In
spectors to examine such person on oath as
to his qualifications, and if he claims to have
resided within the S'.ate for one year or more,
his oath shall not be sufficient proof thereof,
but shall make proof thereof by at least ore
competent witness, who shall be a qualified
elector, that lie has resided in the district for
more than ten days nxt preceding said elec
tion, pnd shall also himself swear that his
bona fide residence, in pursuance of his law
ful calling, is within the district, and that
he did not remove into said district for the
purpose of voting therein.
"Every person qualified as aforesaid, and
who shall make due proof, as is required. f
his residence and payment of taxes as afore
said, shall be admitted to vote in the town
ship, ward or district in which he shall re
side. "If any person shall prevent, or attem.pt
to prevent, any officer of any election under
this act from holding such election, or use
or threaten any violence to any such officer,
or shall interrupt or improperly interfere
within the execution of his duty, or shall
block up the window, or avenue to any win
dow, where tho same may be holding, or
shall riotously disturb the peace of such elec
tion, or shill use or practice any intimidat
ing threats, force or violence, with design to
influence unduly or overawe any elector, or
to prevent him from voting, or to restrain
the freedom of choice, such persons, on con
viction, shall be fined in any sum not exceed
ing $500, be imprisoned for any time not
less than one month nor more than twelve
months; and if it shall be shown to the"
Court where the trial of such ofience shall be
had, that the person s offending was not a
resident xf the city, ward, district or town
ship where the said offence was committed,
and not entitled to vote therein, then, on
conviction, he shall be sentenced to pay a
fine net less than one hundred nor more than
one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned
not less than six month? nor more than two
years." - -
Pursuant to the provisions contained, in
the Act first aforesaid, the Judges of the
aforesaid districts stall respectively take
charge of the certificate or return of their
respective districts, and produce them at a
meeting of one Judge from each district, at
the Court House in the borough of Ebens
burg, on the third day after the day of elec
tion, being FRIDAY, the 11th day of Octo
ber, A. D. 1867, and thenand there to do
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT
and perform those duties required of them
by law.
And further, if any Judge, by sickness or
unavoidable accident, is unable to attend
said meeting of Judges, then the certificate
or return aforesaid shall be taken charge of
by one of the Inspectors or Clerks of election
of the same district, who shall do and per
form the duties of said Judge unable to at
tend. That the qualified voters of the several
counties of this Commonwealth, at all gen
eral, township, borough and special elec-
tions, "are hereby hereafter authorized and
required to voteT)y ticket, printed or writ-,
ten, or partly printed and partly written,
severally classified as follows : - Une ticket
shall embrace the' names of all judges of
courts voted for, and to be labelled, outside,
judiciary ;' one ticket shall ; embrace the
names of all State officers voted for, and be
labelled 'State ;' one ticket shall embrace
all the County officers voted for, .including
office of Senattr, member or members of
Assembly, if voted for, and members of Con
gress, if voted for, and be labelled 'County;'
one ticket hall embrace the names of all
Township officers voted for, and be labelled
Township;' one ticket shall embrace the
names of all Borough officers voted for, and
be labelled 'Borough ;' and each class shall
be deposited in separate ballot-boxes."
Given under my hsvnd. at my office in Eb
nsburg. the 11th day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States the nine
tieth. JA31ES MYERS; Sheriff.
ILLIAM KITTELL, Attorney at
Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
January 24, 1867.
JOHN FENLON, Attorney at Law,
Ebensburg. Ta.
Office opposite tbe Bank. jnn24
EORGE M. HEADE, Attorney at
Law, Ebensbarg, Pa.
Sg8 Office in Colonnade Row. jan24
F
P. TIERNEY", Attorney at Law,
Ehensburg, Cambria county, Va.
gy Oflice in Colonnade Row. . jan24
OI1NSTOX & SGANLAN, Attorneys
at Law, Ebensbarg, Pa.
jgy Office opposite the Court House.
B. L. JOHNSTON. jin24 J. X. 6CASLAS.
JAMES C. EASLY, Attorney at Law,
Carrolltown, Cambria county, Pa.
JJSJ- Architectural Drawings and Specifi
;ations made. . fjan24
A. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at
Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
Particular attention paid to collections.
Office one door east of Lloyd & Co.'s
Banking House. jan24
A M U E h S I N G L ETON , A t tor n ey a t
Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office on High
street, west of Foster's Hotel.
Will practice iu the Courts of Cambria and
adjoining counties..
JGgf- Attends also to the collection of claims
of soldiers against the Government. jan24
EORGE V,T. OAT MAN, Attorney at
Law and Claim -Agent, Ebensburg,
Cambria county. Pa.
saf Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty, and
all Military Claims collected. Real Estate
bought and sold, and payment of Taxes at
tended to. Book Accounts, Notes, Due Bills,
Judgments, &c, collected. Deeds, Mortga
ges, Agreements, Letters of Attorney, Bonds,
&c, neatly written, and all legal business
carefully attended to. Pensions increased,
and Equalized Bounty collected. jan24
DEYEREAUX, M. D., Physician
and Surgeon, Summit, Pa.
J$Sf Office east of Mansion House, on Rail
road street. Night calls promptly attended
to, at bi3 office. maj-23
ENTISTRY.
The undersigned, Graduate of the Bal
timore College of Dental Surgery, respectfully
offers his professional services to the citizens
of Ebensburg. He has spared no means to
thoroughly acquaint himself with every im
provement in his art. To many years of per
sonal experience, he has sought to add the
imparted experience of the highest authorities
in Dental Science. He simply asks that an
opportunity may be given for his work to
speak its own praise.
SAMUEL BELEORD, D. D. S.
References: Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. 3ond,
Jr.; W. R. Handy; A. A. Blandy.P. II. Aus
ten, of the Baltimore College.
jy'Will beat Ebensburg on the fourth
Monday of each month, to stay one wjek.
January 24, 1867.
LLOYD & CO., Bankers
Ebensburg, Pa.
SBm Gold, Silver, Government Loans and
other Securities bought and sold. Interest
allowed on Time Deposits. Collections made
on all accessible points in the United States,
anJ a Central Banking Busiuess transacted.
January 24, 18(37.
M. LLOYD & Co., Barkers
Altoona, Pa.
Drafts on the principal cities, and Silver
and Gold for sale. Collections made. Mon
eys received on deposit, payable on demand,
without interest, or upon time, with interest
at fair rates. . jan2i
wm. m. lloyd, V7. Jons llotd, Cashier.
FIRST NATIONAL DANK
OF ALTOONA.
C O VERXMEXT A GEA'CV,
AND
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE UNI
TED STATES..
Bgy- Corner Virginia and Annie sts., North
Ward, Altoona, Pa.
Authorized Capital $300,000 00
Cash Capital Paid in 150,00 00
All business pertaining to Banking done on
favorable terms.
Internal Revenue Statnp3 of all denomina
tions always on hand.
To purchasers of Stampp, percentage, in
stamps, will be allowed, as follows : $50 to
S100, 2 per cent. ; S10C to 200, 3 per cent.
$200 and upwards, 4 per cent. jan24
THAN PRESIDENT.- Him by Clay.
RICHMOND IN 1864-5.
A Southern correspondent, a lady,
gives the following personal recollections
of secessia during the war : -
During a- part of the war, I lived
immediately on the Rapidan river, in that
rural and picturesque portion of Virginia
designated Piedmont. , .Nowhere has na
ture done more to beautify, and art less,
than there. The river, though a small
stream at some points, in winter swells to
a bjood-red,rapirily-rolling flood, to which
the rnountain torrents contribute. The
Dlue Kidge" overshadows the rolling land
scape. I determined to leave the farm in charge
of the overseer, and thus to rid myself of
the perpetual care, terror and suspense
incidental to that section. So I gave him
the keys, and with one of the very best of
good servants "refugeed" to Richmond
that grand central point to which all
terrified or home-iereft women and chil
dren turned; a bee-hive swarming and
teeming and overrun with workers and
drones till the honey was all exhausted,
and nothing left but bitter comb, and
thaf, after a little, put to the highest
bidder.
It was "fashionable," for the sake of
economy, to "room-keep" that is, for an
individual or party to rent a room or more,
and to find marketing for themselves, to
live as best they could and that meant
on half rations.- I knew a lady with three
children in one room, who had always
previously moved at the head ot society,
who assured me that she had not tasted
meat for eight weeks. Her fine house
and grounds in Fredericksburg were de
stroyed, and she fled in the night, amid
the screaming of 6hell and cannon balls,
for her life.
I was fortunate enough to get two com
fortable rooms, andith a little iron fix
ture before the grate, Judy cooked me
many a morsel of sweet food. J was more
fortunate than most of my neighbors,
inasmuch as I could get from home occa
sionally a box of hams, fowls, hominy,
meal aud potatoes ; and do not let me
leave out the sorghum molasses made on
the farm, and which I still prefer to sugar
house syrup. Surely God put it into the
hearts of the people to cultivate and make
this very useful article just before the
war, as it became the staple, and I believe
in hundreds of cases, but for it, starvation
would have ensued.
Our house in Richmond was a large
one, atd the thirty occupants lived pretty
much by room-keeping, though there was
board iu the central part for transient or
permanent boarders.
There haci been such a change in Rich
mond, made by influx of straugers from
every section of the confederacy, and the
exigencies of the times, that it was scarce
ly recognizable. Social equity was in a
measure inverted, and law and order went
to the wall. Women, delicate, and refined,
had to assume mcu's duties, and in every
public department held places of high
official importance, with salaries ranging
from six to twelve hundred dollars and
upwards a month, all struggling not for
wealth to hoard, but for bread to keep the
body alive.
When four years of wear and tear have
exhausted a lady's wardrobe, with no goods
in the country, except a lew running at
long intervals the blockade, and at prices
too exorbitant, what can a woman do who
has the wish, the laudable wish, to look
well through everything, without the
material for its fulfillment? Well, take
two dresses of different material and color,
one minus a skirt, the other a body
insert a quarter of a yard of one into the
t-kirt of the other, make puffings of the
lighter color at the top of the sleeve, and
of the darker form the tight fitting part,
and notice the effect. This we did, and
though mingled and mottled, it was still
DO
picturesque.
Women's bonneta will wear out; and
a? bate were more, easily got, hats becme
the style. Every woman learned to plait
straw, and to make her own hat, which
she decked with a rich plume from pome
old stock, or with a guinea fowl's bright
wicg.
Shoes we learned to manufacture, and
every rag-bag was brought into requisi
tion to furnish thick poplin pieces for
lasting. Stockings we knit, gloves we
made in which art I myself became so
expert that I could easily get thirty dol
lars for each pair I could furnish the
merchants.
Crinoline was harder to substitute ; but
we got all right there, for the old bteel
bands we could cover with strips of cotton
cloth, and re-shado and hang together
with cord. Nothing was lost.
The greatest tax upon us was the clo
thing for the servants, which was some
times supplied by cutting up counterpanes
and blankets. Shoes with wooden soles
were lound to answer.
Invention was the order of the day,
and confederate puddings and pastries,
with sorgham molasses personating white
sugar, were pronounced delicious.
Coffee, made from everything under
the sun, from acorns to rye, gave zest to
trade and emulation to speculators who
dealt io "pure coffee mixed with rye."
Rye coffee :s a good substitute when
war and blockade shut out every available
resource. I have made and drunk it on a
cold winter evening, clear and strong,
when I enjoyed it with a relish, and
thanked God for it.
It was a curious sight in those days to
look into a drug store, and io place ot the
usual paraphernalia of bottles, to see a
second hand bridal dress of white stretched
at full length in the show-case, with a
label bearing- "For sale 2,000." Iu
the windows of extensive auction houses,
whose business has been brisk in other
days, dresses now hung, mingled with all
articles of a lady's second hand wardrobe.
I deposited a dress, white counterpane,
and one hundred and fifty old novels, iu
one of these houses for sale.
Rooks were in demand, and an interest
ing novel would sell for from 812 to S25.
Servants perambulated the streets with
immense baskets holding ladies' and chil
dren's clothing, sold to buy bread for
houseless refugees. Refugees from New
Orleans, Memphis, &c., who had handsome
wardrobes, but no breadfar from home,
with their husbands, fathers and brothers
fighting, disposed of every superfluous
article of elegant wear, and learned to
weave and wear "Virginia c'.oth." This
wa9 almost put a stop to at last by the wane
of cotton, but after a certain crisis it was
more readily obtained, and accordingly
the looms which had been silent since
the times. of our grandparents,' once more
gave their cheerful bang-bang? about the
household of many a thrifty housewife,
and speedily clothed the fair belles, used
to nothing coarser than silk and fine wool.
I knew a lovely young woman, married
for six months only, who received a letter
from her husband "in the trenches," tell
ing her that he would be at home on a
certain day to stay twenty-four hours.
She got up a little gala for him, and each
neighbor furnished from some hoarded
store a few grains of real coffee; one sent
her a sugar-dish of real sugar. She fixed
the little parlor; had everything arranged ;
the sugar ostentatiously displayed in the
silver sugar-bowl, when 1j ! in her hand
was placed a letter, saying, "How grieved
I am, I cannot tell you,.but Mr. Moore's
head was struck off yesterday as he raised
himself from behind the trench to recon
noitre." Winter found me many a time without
coal ; the caual had been cut and the locks
destroyed ; therefore, it could not be
brought, as the Danville railroad was a!so
destroyed, the trains not having run for
two weeks. Once I had lain in bed all
day to keep warm. Judy had exhausted
her ingenuity in deviling some mode of
obtaining fuel ; she had burned the last
box and barrel, and was fairly nonplussed.
I got up and dressed myself as expedi
tiously as my cold fingers could dispatch
tape and buttons, determining to go to the
coal yard myself. It was a long way, and
I met many disconsolate women who
begged me return, as my errand would
prove fruitless ; but I persevered, and at
last, on reaching the ofiice cf Mr. Durkc,
looked appealiigly at him and asked for
coal.
"Hav'u't any; have refused five hun
dred people."
I sat down, forlorn. Upon raising my
eyes, I found that he was looking at me,
upon which I took heart to say : "Do you
not think that a little fine coal might
possibly be scraped u;, ju?t to keep me
from lreezing only that. ?"
His quick reply was : "I have saved a
half-load ; you can have it."
I felt like crying ; but I didn't. I paid
him ninety dollars, and in an hour's time
was crying in my faithful Judy's arms, in
gratitude to a cheerful blaze ; but tears
soon turned to smiles at her queer mode
of comforting. "Good Lord, missis, while
you was freezing you didu't cry; now you
is warm, j'O'i let your tears run. For de
Lord's sake, hold up your head; three
somebodies is at the doer begging to get
dere hands warm." So I admitted the
tenants only too g'ad to extend the hos
pitality besides lending them a half
bushcl of coal apiece.
I frequently went to the legislafivc
hall ; and was sometimes pleased, some
times disgusted.
I heard ex.-Governor Wise lecture one
night just a month, I think, before the
capitulation. The crowd was dense to
suffocation. Ilis eloquence chained my
mind, riveted my ears, and cheered my
heart, for he, with all his native power, in
ornate and copious language, pronounced
emphatically, that our day of deliverance
was at hand.
Starvation seemed likely to ensue as
the winter waned into spring. Meat was
so scarce as to be a rarity to epicureans.
Flour brought from two to three thous
and dollars.
One morning in March, I went to
market, and as I was slowly sauntering
towards the oyster stalls, I espied a chick
en, which almost deafened ni1) with its
lusty crowing. I asked of the black man
who was stauding by :
"Uncle, what do you ask for your
chicken V
"Ah, roissm, that rooster I ax one
hundred and fifty dollars for."
"How old is he, uncle ?"
"Carn't say, 'zactly, but it 'pears to me
that comin' this summer he will be in hi
6ix year." ,
"And still you ask so large a sum for
him? Why, he will be as tough as
leather !"
"Yah ! yab ! Dese Confedrit time.",
people don't etand on tough," paid he.
TSRiIS-l3,OOPER AXSUM.
ISS.OOIX ADTAXCE,
NUMBER 36.
Ey the third day after
the captore of the city, things began to
assume something like law and order,
but starvation was staring the whole pop
ulation in tho face. It is true that sut
lers had opened stores of tempting comes
tibles, but who had money to buy ? Not
one, except some of the Jews, I myself
had not one mouthful, except a quart of
meal; the marketing furnished on Satur
day was exhausted, and my neighbors
could not give me, as they had nothing
to bestow.
I One by one, the men who had left
tie city strayed back again, and some
soldiers on parole cama to their wives,
but, except the comfort that sympathy
gives, they were of no more real servica
than fifth wheels to wagons. Husbands
had no money, but were human neverthe
less. My six thousand dollars iu Confed
erate money, which I had in hand for
pocket money, would not bring me one
ginger cake. Officers, men of rack, of
social distinction and wealth, were nov
forlornly sitting down to meals for which
they could not hope to pay. The land
lady's stock on tho fifth day consisted of
half a ham and a half barrel of Irish
potatoes. She posted a notice over the
door for "sodgers," and several Federal
officers came to the house, and she got in
hand her first greenback.
I was very nearly desperate when Judy
came in panting with delight. "Oh I
now," she cried, "never say again that
you 'spects to starve, for God hears the
young ravens when they cry; here is some
money," and she put in my hand a two
dollar greenback the first I ever saw. I,
trained by the lessons taught during the
four years past, made little tobacco-pouches
and filled them with tobacco and got them
sold, which brought me a little. Soup
houses were opened, and I have seen them
crowded to suffocation, with timid and
refined ladies among the number, holding
little pitchers sinking with shame to
be filled. Anything to keep from starv
ing ! I never went, but Judy did, tho'
I could not drink the soup. The Sanitary
Commission hoisted its flag, and had dis
tributed many comforts before I heard of
it. Even after I was aware of the open
ing of the Commission, I hesitated, from
sheer independence and pride, to apply to
it till weakness and famine clamored for
help.
1 found my way there at dusk, and
timidly entering, ventured to inquire for
Mr. Williams, the superintendent. lie
appeared, and his kiud and easy manner
made me feel less like a criminal. He
tent home with me a servant laden with
a box of good, substantial food, besides
such delicacies as I had cra"ed for months.
Judy stood at her post as financier, gen
eral manager, supervisor, comforter, ser
vaut, and friend. In all this time I had
not heard from my husband, till one day,
three weeks after, the door opened and he
burst into the room. "Sj you are alive
alive still, and I see you again I" he
said. Rumors of the most startling de
scription had reached him of the treat
ment of women when Richmond was
occupied, nnd the three weeks of frantio
suspense had weakened him to exhaus
tion. Judy, of course, had her share in
the congratulations which folloTed, and
after having recounted our several expe
riences, we let the curtain drop.
The Reynolds Monument. A
meeting of the committee of the First
Corps, Army of the Potomac, having
charge of the Reynolds Monument, was
held at Philadelphia, August 13, 18G7.
All the members were present. Tho
Treasurer reported 80,910.57 on hand,
nearly all of which bears interest. Tho
committee decided to erect a semi-co'ossal
statue of the General, in military uniform,
on a site already selected in the Soldiera'
National Cemetery at Gettysburg. An
additional sum of $2,500 is needed to in
sure the early completion of the monu
ment. Officers and soldiers of Reynolds'
Corps disposed to increase their subscrip
tions can do so by addressing General C.
S. Wainright, Treasurer, at Rhinebeck,
New York, or any of the other members
of the committee, namely: General R.
Coulter, Greensburg, Westmoreland coun
ty, Pa.; General J. W. Ilofman, No. 9
North Eighth street, Philadelphia; Col.
Chapman Riddle, No. 131 South Fifth
street, Philadelphia; or Dr. T. II. Bache,
N. 233 South Thirteenth street, Phila
delphia. At the Dry Tortuoas. A private
letter from the Dry Tortugas says: -"There
ore but few prisoners here uow,
forty-five in all, and two-thirds of them,
if not more, are United States soldiers,
who havfc teen sent here for various
crimes, principally desertion. The con
spirators arc lodged like the other pris
oners, in the second tier of casemates.
Their quarters are cool, dry, cheerful, and
airy, and command quite as pleasant a
view as theie is. They manage to live
pretty well on their Government rations
and what their frieuds send them. Ar
nold is employed a3 a clerk, and ieems
satisfied. Spanglerand O'Laughlin work
at their trade as carpenters. 31udd works
now iu the carpenter shop, and is getting
quite handy with the toois. They are all
in excellent health, but a little thinner
than is natural for them. They have th
use of the library."
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